Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH AN AGATE CAMEO
Lot 117

AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH AN AGATE CAMEO

BY CAMILLO PICCONI, ROME, 1811-1815

Closed7 July 2023

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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH AN AGATE CAMEO
BY CAMILLO PICCONI, ROME, 1811-1815
Circular hardstone box with gold mounts, the cover set with a cameo depicting a classical figure in silver-gilt frame, marked on bezel and on cover's mount
2 1/2 in. (64 mm.) diameter
gross weight 4 oz. (117 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 April 1997, lot 32.

Specialist note


Camillo Picconi's accounts record another cameo-set box, described on June 24, 1800: 'una scatola di tartaruga nera, foderata d'oro di bollo e con cameo incassato sul coperchio' [a box in black tortoiseshell, lined with stamped gold and with a recessed cameo on the lid] (C. G. Bulgari, Argentieri Gemmari e Orafi Italia, vol. II, p. 270).